Research & Scholarship

Many members of the department have published important research related to measuring and improving healthcare quality. Considering only high impact general medical journals, members of the department have been authors on over 80 papers since 2000 in the New England Journal of Medicine (one-11), the Journal of the American Medical Association (12-40) the Lancet (41), JAMA Internal Medicine (including the previously titled Archives of Internal Medicine; 42-59), the British Medical Journal (60-69), and the Annals of Internal Medicine (70-83):

Shaw K, Cassel CK, Black C, Levinson W. Shared medical regulation in a time of increasing calls for accountability and transparency: comparison of recertification in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. JAMA. 2009;302(18):2008-2014.

Kwan JL, Bell CM. Should we rethink the scheduling of elective surgery at the weekend? BMJ. 2013;346:f3353.

Guttmann A, Schull MJ, Vermeulen MJ, Stukel TA. Association between waiting times and short term mortality and hospital admission after departure from emergency department: population based cohort study from Ontario, Canada. BMJ 2011;342:d2983.